Harold D. Miller is the Strategic Initiatives Consultant for the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation in Pittsburgh.  He is also President of Future Strategies, LLC, a management and policy consulting firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he serves as Adjunct Professor of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. 

Since 2006, Miller has been working on a number of initiatives to improve the quality of health care services and to change the fundamental structure of health care payment systems in order to support improved quality.  His work at the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) on how health care payment systems impede quality improvement was featured in Modern Healthcare magazine in December, 2007.  In addition to his work with PRHI, he organized the Network for Regional Health Improvement’s 2007 national Summit on health care payment reform, “Creating Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-Driven Health Care,” and he served as the Facilitator for the Minnesota Health Care Transformation Task Force.  His report Creating Payment Systems to Accelerate Value-Driven Health Care: Issues and Options for Policy Reform was published by the Commonwealth Fund in September, 2007.

Miller previously served as the President of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Economy League of Southwestern Pennsylvania until November, 2005.  In those roles, he designed and implemented a wide range of initiatives designed to improve the economy and quality of life in the Pittsburgh Region.  He also served for 10 years as the Director of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Growth Alliance, a ten-county public-private partnership dedicated to promoting the economic development needs of the region with state and federal officials.  Prior to joining the Allegheny Conference in October, 1992, Miller served for nearly six years as Associate Dean of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.  During the 1980s, Miller served for seven years in the Pennsylvania Governor's Office during the Thornburgh Administration.  As Deputy Director and then Director of the Governor's Office of Policy Development, he was responsible for the development, review, and coordination of policy issues in all areas affecting state government, including health care, human services, economic and community development, education, environmental protection, and criminal justice.  

Miller has been active in community service in the Pittsburgh region for two decades.  He currently serves as President of the Board of Directors of Eastern Area Adult Services, Inc., an agency helping senior citizens, and as a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership.  He was one of sixty individuals named “Pittsburghers of the Year” by Pittsburgh Magazine in 1998. 

Miller received his Master of Science in Public Management and Policy from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University.